U.S. and Israeli forces bombed Iran on Saturday amid ongoing peace talks between Iran and the U.S. Explosions could be heard across Tehran. In a statement, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared a "special and permanent state of emergency" across Israel. The Israeli government described its attack as "preemptive." Several news organizations reported that Israel
Why does it have to involve the big powers for it to be a world war?
IMO that implies that less powerful countries being in chaos doesn’t matter.
I always thought world war just meant a lot of countries in a related conflict.
Because it is a pretty basic and factual definition of world war. War occurring in different place in the world does not equal a world war.